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‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

Sep. 25, 2012 8:12am Jonathon M. Seidl

New lunch guidelines passed in 2010 as part of Michelle Obama’s health initiative (the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act) limit the amount of calories school lunches can provide.
The number, 850, is forcing many to go hungry, as the restrictions don’t account for active vs. inactive students or boys vs. girls.
One group of teens (with the help of teachers) in Kansas created a video mocking the restrictions called “We Are Hungry” and it’s gone viral.
Some Republican lawmakers are trying to get the calorie limits repealed.

On Monday night, several stories popped up regarding students revolting against Michelle Obama’s new “healthy” school lunch mandates that restrict the amount of calories schools can serve. And while there are plenty of facts, information, and even interviews, nothing captures the heart of the story as much as a viral video made by a small group of high school kids mocking the program. So who are these kids and what sparked the video? We went digging and found out.

But before we reveal the story behind the video, here’s a compilation of stories framing the issue (all emphasis added).

Townhall.com:

In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.

Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.

“I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal,” middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.

Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.

Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market – for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.

Daily Mail:

High schools are now forbidden from giving pupils more than 850 calories for their lunch – even if they are fast-growing teenagers or even student athletes.

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Now that the rules have come into effect for the new school year, many are concerned that some adolescents are being denied the quantities of food they need.

Student athletes can burn through as many as 5,000 calories a day – but they are still entitled to no more than 850 calories for their lunch.

Even though recommended calorie intake is different for males and females, the restrictions are the same for both boys and girls.

Great Falls Tribune:

As he grabbed lunch before a road trip to Malta for a football game, junior Joey Kercher quickly ate two slices of pizza, grapes and milk.

Then he left the school cafeteria for McDonald’s and his second lunch.

School lunch “is not enough,” he said.

Thanks to new USDA rules, Kercher could have had however many servings of vegetables he wanted — though he skipped the first helping of cucumbers and salad offered, calling them “not appetizing” — but couldn’t have seconds on pizza.

Sharing his table, junior Michael Kraft said he goes home for lunch because the school’s offerings “don’t fill me up.”

Sometimes he eats carrots, but generally he eats “whatever I can find” and skips the veggies.

‘Fabulous … but‘

Lofty goals of improving youth eating habits and hard realities of hungry students are colliding in school cafeterias across the state. In Cut Bank, less than half as many students as last year at this time eat school lunch, from an average of 110 to 48.

New USDA school lunch guidelines, part of President Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, require doubling the servings of fruits and vegetables, with less sodium and fat and no meat for breakfast. The rules limit calories, so as First Lady Michelle Obama has said, school lunches don’t undo parents’ efforts to ensure their children eat healthy meals.

The problem, however, is in the limit of protein — meats, cheese, sour cream, yogurt (but not milk) — and grains to 2 ounces each for young children and 3 ounces for high schoolers. The new rules set the minimum at only 1 oz. of protein per meal, said Salley Young, a Montana School Nutrition Association executive board member and food service manager at Greenfield Elementary School.

In rural communities, some students get on the bus at 7:15 a.m., have school all day and then participate in activities in the evening, pushing dinner time to 8 p.m. or later, meaning they need more food than the minimums set, she said.

So what are students left to do if they are going hungry? Make a viral video, of course. That’s what the teens at Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas, decided to do — and it’s been effective.

Those students created a parody of the popular hit “We Are Young” called “We Are Hungry.” It follows a group of high schoolers around school as they struggle to complete classwork, sports, and other tasks because they are too hungry to properly function due to the small and inadequate lunches. It was posted Sept. 17, has over 66,000 views, and has became a rallying cray of sorts:

“There’s just not enough,” Callahan Grund, a 16-year-old football player who is featured in the video, told the Kansas City Star regarding the school lunches.

“When you have chores in the morning and football practice after school, you need energy,” he added, later saying, “This doesn’t cut it.”

Story Behind We Are Hungry Video of Kansas High School Students Mocking School Lunch

US First Lady Michelle Obama eats a turkey taco for lunch while sitting with school children in the cafeteria at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, January 25, 2012. Obama visited the school with celebrity chef Rachael Ray and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to highlight the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) new nutrition standards for school lunches, as schools undertake new efforts to provide healthy food for children. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

But the irony is that the video is not solely the work of the students. In reality, the parody was penned by a local teacher who got upset after she saw a colleague’s Facebook post. The Star explains:

Linda O’Connor, an English teacher at Wallace County High School, penned the “We Are Hungry” parody after a colleague, Brenda Kirkham, posted a photo of her school lunch on Facebook and sparked dozens of outraged comments.

The lunch included one cheese-stuffed bread stick, a small dollop of marinara sauce, three apple slices and some raw spinach. Kirkham supplemented the lunch with items from a salad bar, including cubes of ham, bacon bits and dressing, which were available only to teachers.

“I asked why the sauce had no meat and I was informed that due to the breadsticks containing cheese, the meat would put us over the guidelines for protein,” Kirkham, the teacher, wrote on Facebook.

“Now think of a high school boy who works out at least three hours a day, not including farm work. … I’m furious. The ‘cheese’ inside the breadstick is approximately three bites. This is ridiculous.”

And now many are revolting against the system — even the teachers.

“I have quite a few football guys come in here, and I’m like, ‘Hurry up and eat so it doesn’t get on your project,’ ” Kirkham told the Star. “I mean, they’re starving.

Some legislators are trying to get involved. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican from Kansas, is working with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to repeal the calorie limits in the new lunch legislation adopted in 2010.

“If every member of Congress would actually go into a school cafeteria and take a look at the trash can, they’d see that what sounds good on paper doesn’t always work out like you think,” he told the Star.

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Comments (414)

kevin542
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:43am
I wonder if Obama’s little girls eat this way..Probably not..Mean while children in Africa are eating better…Another reason for getting rid of Obama’s America…Next thing you know they’ll ban Mickey “Ds” within a mile of schools…kinda like thingy Bloomberg did in New York….Here kids heres your daily requirement of goul…..

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GideonX
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:42am
Why don’t those kids make a lunch to take? Even my 9 year old can make his own sandwich! Geez, if you don’t teach your kids to take care of themselves, that’s plain child abuse! Put some dang leftovers between two slices of bread, boom! Lunch!

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- IndyThinker
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:56am
  They are actually confiscating food that does not meet nutritional guidelines.
  
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American_Made
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:36am
Put The Obummers back in office and this will be the tip of the iceberg. These people are about as intelligent as the north end of a south bound mule.Neither one of them could manage a whore house with One client. (probably Bill Clinton) These people are redistributionist lying trash. They live to control the lives of others. Maybe Michelle should look at her own rear-end in a mirror and work on cutting her own calories a bit because her rear end is about the same size as that mules i mentioned earlier.

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EqualJustice
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:31am
Kids do not perform to the best of their abitilty when they are HUNGRY.

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- EqualJustice
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:32am
  See, even adults. time for food. :)
  
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carbonated
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:25am
These white kids are hungry because they’re racist. :)

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adieappleby
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:24am
I think the feds should have 0% input on local school lunches. HOWEVER, capitalism and free market principles would suggest that if all the kids started packing a lunch that a message could be sent.

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Mamma Bear
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:23am
Stay out of my kids lunch box! My kids are super skinny and I can feed them whatever I want! I am their mother and the government does not know what is best for my kids. I am sorry that some parents are too stupid to know that a diet filled with chips and candy bars will result in fat kids – but enough – I don’t care!

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perry1980
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:21am
The govt will control your healthcare, your food intake, you gasoline use.

STOP giving away your Freedoms.

Vote on November 6th!

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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Amen !!!!!
  
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sprdthewrd
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:19am
Vote November 6th to remove the TRASH from the White House, Senate and House. Make it a Landslide and tell your friend. Enough is Enough

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Mayanwolf
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:18am
RUN or FIGHT when you hear the words I’m from the Government and I’m here to help!

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S.Sailor
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:15am
Vote for BarryBarrackHusseinObamaSoetoro……he’s the greatest….(sarcasm off/ )

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Joe
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:14am
This is dedicated to the memory of all of the students attending St. Paul Catholic Grade & High School on the Lake, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan in 1969. We fought not in vain against Viet Nam era surplus food lunches. However, as history teaches; the United States Government does not learn from history. “Go Lakers!”

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Gimme Shelter
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:10am
I teach in western PA and checked the lunch yesterday, 9-24, to see we were being offered 3 french toast sticks, a sausage patty, and apple sauce. I figured I’d take it since I wasn’t really hungry. I then became enraged, and yes at the government, when I went to get milk, and the only available kind was skim. I HATE SKIM!!! So in my rebellion against the left, I became PRO-CHOICE and brought my own milk to school today. UNREAL!!

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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:53am
  Glad you did what you did! I hope it was whole milk and chocolate, if you like chocolate milk. Please use that as a lesson in your classroom. It could be the start of a good civics lesson about making educated choices, not regulated choices. Just think of the extensions you could get out of it into cross discipinary subjects….
  
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LatvianinUS
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:07am
I have to say that it should not be about the food, what about encouriging kids to exercise??? That one might really help the obesity problem in america. Of course like some ppl are saying they want
the ppl weaker not stronger. I can’t vote yet, cause I’m just a perminent resdent, but I put my hope in the american ppl that they will finally wake up. I was born in the USSR and from what I remember I can say that it wasn’t pretty, just wait till the gov. starts giving you coupons telling you how much you can eat according to the size of your family. America please wake up. And both parties are to blame here, stop going for just better, but really go for the best.

Thanks

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UseReasonNotMagic
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:05am
I think this video is hilarious, but I also fully agree with what Michelle is doing, This video doesn’t show it (on purpose) but an alarmingly high number of kids are growing up obese with out being taught proper eating habits. Its killing them, I think this is one of the most important things that Obama could do, put time effort and money into public schools. Get them on the right track.

These kids are not starving, that’s a ridiculous statement. The way our stomache works is if we overeat a lot, and then have a normal meal, we will feel hungry, but after a few properly (smaller) portioned means, we do not feel as hungry because our stomach shrinks. Its healthy, you guys just don’t seem to see that?

But again, I love the creativity that these kids, and no doubt teachers have put into this video. but i hope they stand strong.

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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:34am
  I’m sorry Use Reason Not Magic, but first off what is a “normal meal” should it be what you define, what I define, or what MO defines? Should we define need based on your activity level and metabolism, or does each person have a distinctive set of values based on their individual activity level and metabolism? Has throwing a lot of money at something ever really sovled a problem or just created excess waste and misallocation of resources? What is the result of treating symptoms and not trying to define the underlying causes of any malady or dis-ease?
  While you also said that none of these children look like they are starving, they don’t look obese either, but just by looking we don’t know either. While your comments sound pretty reasonable, and you sound like a caring person, there may be more here that what appears.
  We are individuals, you have your opinion you’ve stated publically, and I’ve just stated my response based on my opinion…we are both entitled to our opinions even if they do differ.
  
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- UseReasonNotMagic
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:06am
  Joel,
  Thank you for your respectful response.
  By normal meal, I mean a well balanced meal, one which has all of the nutritional elements needed to sustain a person, and not substantially more or less.
  
  If you look at scientific studies in diet, the average person, based on average daily physical activity, is about 2000 calories today, but this can range up to 5000 calories per day for athletes, such as runners or football players. It is in the best interest of the schools to feed for the average student, the athletes are separate cases and they can make up those calories at dinner or bring in their lunches. No one is forcing anyone to eat this food. Michelle is just trying to eliminate school food as a driving factor for obesity.
  
  With this said, the 850 calories at lunch is more than enough for one meal, that is almost half of 2000 daily calories I referenced above.
  
  I will skip over several of your unrelated “red herring” questions that just muddy the water and have no true relevance to the topic. See this article for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_fallacies
  
  Of course these kids are in shape, how effective would the video be if the video was full of obese students? These are obviously the athletes who consume more calories but also exert many more calories in daily exercise. Athletes are a small fraction of the average schools population, I don’t believe that feeding all kids an athlete’s diet is healthy, the va
  
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- UseReasonNotMagic
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:08am
  Continued from above…
  
  the vast majority of the students aren’t exercising enough to warrant as many calories as the athletes.
  
  Most people don’t understand that eating fatty foods is parallel to ingesting a drug, they cause the endocannabinoid system in the brain to fire and cause extra dopamine to be released into the brain, making the person feel happy, not unlike when someone smokes a joint. So of course people will be upset, just like if you took someone’s drug of choice away. There are many other ways to get this high, such as exercise for one, positive social interaction is another. Many ways, this is just helping people discover these more sustainable and healthier ways to be happy.
  
  I am not the dummy Obama supporter that theblaze likes to think we all are, I fully support Obama’s decision on this for valid reasons.
  
  Sorry for the length of this comment :-)
  
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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:00pm
  Respectfully, I think what you dismissed as “red herring” questions were just ones you either didn’t understand, wanted to maybe ignore, or maybe a combination of the two. As a former teacher I have seen set curriculums being sent to schools. The teachers have little leeway to interject learning within the context of the lesson. Dictating school lunches does not teach the students about good nutrition, nor does it instill rationality in these children about the school lunch. In our conversation, how would you have responded if I just simply, flatly, told you the the veiws you hold are wrong, and these are the views which are correct, so change? How would you have felt? What would you have learned? How would you have responded? Could there be more effective and less expensive ways to achieve a more balance and more nutritional meal for students at school than the way it was done?
  In response to your saying they could eat a larger, calorie rich dinner, is that the best eating habits, or is it recommended for another meal by nutritionists? What are the economies of your solution as compared with mine? What is passive learning and how effective is it as compared to active learning in supporting real change?
  
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- UseReasonNotMagic
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:52pm
  It is going to take a lot of changes to get the American population making healthier choices. No one said that enforcing healthier rules for school lunches was going to fix everything.
  
  Sure, I agree that education on food is needed as well, a combination of both will be needed to affect change. Doesn’t health class teach about these things? Yes it does and has for years, but it doesn’t make much sense to teach how to eat healthily and then serve pizza and chicken nuggets every day for lunch.
  
  People learn more by being shown how to do things, rather than being talked at. Lets be honest here, where are these kids getting their eating habits from? Their parents.
  
  Also according to this article, they have unlimited access to vegetables. Athletes can easily get their fill on vegetables. Many high performing athletes are vegetarian, vegetables, nuts and tubers have all the needed nutrients as well.
  
  So the options are,
  1. Eat the healthful school food
  2. For athletes, eat a larger breakfast or dinner
  3. Bring in your own food.
  4. Don’t eat
  
  No one is forcing anything, seems completely fair to me.
  
  If Michelle is so far off base with this one…How would you have done it better? Continue the “Do as I say and not as I do” approach by teaching health and then feeding them unhealthy food?
  
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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:43pm
  It isn’t a matter of how I would do it, but how I did do it. It had no coercion, and it was effective. A couple of the students in the school found out I was a sub-seeded runner in one of the larger track clubs in the US. As a teacher I always brought my lunch, and usually ate in my room so I could maximize my time, and a few of the students started wanting to come in and eat lunch in my room. I never asked them, or promoted the idea, but if they wanted to come in and quietly work during lunch I didn’t stop them either. At some point a few of my students asked me about what I was eating and we had discussions about it. Pretty soon the students approached the principal and asked for a better menu and choices. It was reasonable, in a low income school, and something the district started implementing in other schools. In other words, I lived my life, set a good example, and taught my students to research what would be good for them, and how it could be implemented into the existing program. It was active learning, based on their wanting to look for a better way, and being given the tools to do that. It wasn’t artifical or contrived, nor did I ever teach that way. It didn’t take outside experts or lots of extra money making studies and recommendations. I wasn’t a coach, just a teacher that lived my life inside and outside the classroom, but it might have been better if I had been a coach or a PE teacher, but I wasn’t.
  
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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 3:26pm
  @Joel Knows: The greatest teacher is one that teaches by example, which is what you’ve done. Thank you, and bless you. If only most/all others could learn from your example, including the points you’ve been making on this subject!!!
  
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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 5:09pm
  Thank you Chiquita. It really comes down to a matter of dependence. Do we want to be dependent on the decisions the government makes for us or decisions we make for ourselves? Do we want to be the ones who tell the government “these are the changes we want to make,” or have them tell us “these are the changes we are making, learn to like them!”
  It seems to me those who are avid supporters of our current administration fall into the latter group, feeling more secure having someone tell them what to do, what to eat, what to think. Are they really bad people? I don’t think so, just maybe insecure in their own ability to make “good” decisions and be responsible for those decisions. Maybe they were never taught how to make decisions based on researching, finding answers, then making an educated decision. Maybe part of our existence is falling on a face and skinning our nose now and then. In our current society, no one is allowed to fail, so no one is allowed to win. We need to seek excellence by looking for a better way, knowing we can do more, climb higher, achieve more success…or fail trying.
  Someone once said a floor always brings a ceiling, which is soon followed by walls. That makes a box, and if you don’t have a way in or out that you control it is a cage. When in a cage you are dependent on others for food and water, which places your very existence in someone else’s hands. That is one definition of slavery.
  
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- UseReasonNotMagic
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 2:05pm
  For me, I have complete faith in my ability to make wise and informed decisions. But I don’t have much faith for the average american citizen….This view comes from both personal experience and statistics.
  
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who_it_is
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:05am
It’s about time our young generation begins to see the liberals for what they are and the demise they are bringing on this country.

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G.E.R
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:04am
Give the kids what they want and then they can be fat and stupid like their parents

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MNYukon
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:03am
Mochelle is not an elected official. Was Mochelle appointed as Czar over school luncheons? Schools do not have to listen to her unless Obama hasn’t informed us of all of his executive orders.

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Sherlock01
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:51am
Three words for you Spare Rib Snack. That what MO has been photograghed eating. At around 3500 calories.

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floridareader
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:48am
Mrs Obama should try her own calories count suggestion, maybe we can see beyond her big ****.

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mule creek ridge
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:46am
GOOD for you students!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMHO, the worst lady should NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Verceofreason
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:42am
They miss their junk food.
A 2500 calorie a day diet is recommenmded for most grown men. Get over yourselves

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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Most important element of your comment “GROWN” men. Kids are still growing and do not fall into that restricted category rule. Not only are they still growing, some atheletically active, but you’ve got totally different body styles for so many that cannot easily be categorized for things such as this. Grown, mature men, especially those relegated to an office chair and cubicle don’t need the number of calories as grown, mature men working in construction, in the cotton field, or mowing your yard may need more calories. There truly isn’t a “one size fits all” in this scenario, and to restrict our kids to the point that is being done is nothing more than a “control” mechanism. PLEASE, wake up!!!!!
  
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Joel Knows
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:40am
Questions:
1. Why are we allowing the Federal Government to dictate what, when, and how much we can eat?
2. Should there be a “cookie cutter” formula to make all children into uniform shapes and sizes, mindset, ambition, and intelligence levels?
3. Obesity is the symptom of what in our society today regarding our youth?
4. What rights have parents given up or have been usurped by government authority regarding the raising of children?
5. Do people really care about what is happening, or is this just whining about change and we really don’t like change because that is human nature?
6. Did children become fatter and less healthy as a result of our protecting them from exploitation and feeling bad about not being as good at everything as the next child?
7. Can this story be related to the story about the Mountain Home, AR school that is having success with students?
8. Who has the “intestinal fortitude” to stand up with these children, their parents and teachers and support them…especially since they will probably lose their federal money in the district for this report?

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- Joel Knows
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:44am
  One more question:
  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, would you mind weighing in on this issue and what your policy is for all this?
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:40am
Where are the black and other minority students?

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:04pm
  The black and minority students have nothing to complain about. Their food is now free and these white kids are now footing the bill with their increased costs while they get less. This was done because Moooochelle wanted to take care of “her people”. The black and minority students do not have a restricted calorie diet, they get to eat all the food the white kids can afford.
  
  Get up to speed Liberal.
  
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mbriz
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:35am
You folks prove every day, just how stupid America has become, and why we are going to be a second rate power.

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- UseReasonNotMagic
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:34am
  Yes, I agree, reading the comments often depresses me as well…but I feel its important to understand both sides.
  
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- elderbat
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 5:37pm
  go to walmart during the first week of any given month and watch the food stamp crowd in action. they load the carts with all manner of JUNK, they’ll cruise by the deli section, get food to snack on while they shop and leave the empty containers on store shelves,, not paid for of course…before they head to the checkout. this is the Great Society instituted by LBJ and it continues unabated. how do I know? I used to work at walmart. please note, too, that many of these people have a weight problem. I dare you to call my bluff and go observe at not only walmart but any large grocery chain.
  
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